Tagged with HE

Egypt After months of discussion, in December 2017 Egypt’s Parliament approved a new national health insurance law that aims to overcome some of the inherent problems in the current healthcare system and offer better medical services to the public.   We have studied enough, the time for implementation is now! Dr…

Opinion The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy-Making Act, recently signed into law in the USA, stands to make government data more accessible; thereby allowing researchers, statisticians and others inside and outside of government to make better, and evidenced-based, policy decisions. Carla Smith outlines the scope of the Act and its potential implications…

China China’s unbridled growth has spurred a vast number of overseas Chinese to return home to seek new opportunities in their transformed homeland. Affectionately known as ‘sea turtles’ because the Chinese characters for ‘returning from overseas’ are homonyms for the Chinese characters for ‘sea turtles’, this influx has ignited the country’s…

Spain Ian Wilders, managing director of Labo’Life, a Spanish micro-immunotherapy specialist, discusses the company’s history and the importance of regulatory reform in giving them greater market access and shifting the mindset of doctors. Furthermore, he touches on the company’s international strategy and the importance of a personalized care approach.   Our…

Malaysia Eurasia Group’s Aditya Bhattacharji discusses the relatively modest scope of Malaysia’s recently-launched ‘MYSalam’ scheme; a healthcare programme which aims to provide coverage to the country’s bottom 40 percent of earners.   For the time being, the outlook for the private sector, including for pharmaceutical firms, is good Another populist government,…

Korea Cure Therapeutics is a startup developing gene and cell therapies in Korea. Its founder David Kim explains where his passion for regenerative therapies stems from, breaks down the main hurdles standing in the way of success and describes how his company’s business model focused on flexibility and development speed through…

China Research has established that proper nutrition during hospitalization helps to reduce the number of infections, the duration of treatment needed for recovery, and reduce the readmission rateCecily Gu discusses her move from traditional pharma to a broader healthcare company, the significance of the Greater China region to the global Nestlé…

AI GSK’s Richard Saynor outlines the ways in which an increased embrace of technologies which utilise artificial intelligence can help improve health literacy and therefore patient outcomes.   In healthcare, AI has the potential to improve drug discovery, development and manufacturing, and enhance interactions with customers, doctors and patients As a…

WHO Brendan Shaw outlines how a new approach to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List is needed to ensure both the patients of today and of the future can access the medicines they need.   For pharmaceutical companies, listing on the EML can be a double-edged sword. More than 40 years after its…

Egypt Rates of tuberculosis (TB) have dropped dramatically in Egypt over the last 30 years, but there is still work to be done, with the country’s Ministry of Health recently announcing a new campaign to combat the prevalence of the disease   Thanks to the rollout of a national anti-TB programme,…

Korea Steve Hong, CEO, and Tony Lim, vice president & COO of Lemon Healthcare, lift the lid on the new streamlined hospital data services they are offering, and the benefits to speed and cost effectiveness that they will bring to healthcare providers and patients. Lim also reveals his strategy to expand…

Opinion Kamala Maddali, vice president for Biopharma Collaborations & Companion Diagnostics at Cancer Genetics, discusses what impact next generation sequencing (NGS) stands to have on cancers that affect women.   NGS technology allows for the rapid and accurate sequencing of many genes at once 2018 saw an estimated 18 million cancer…